Paul Provenza Quotes
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I always drive like a madman.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.
